Changing Woman and Her Sisters: Stories of Goddesses from Around the World

This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient Mayan goddess; Changing Woman, the man-faceted Navajo deity, and more. Each story in this dynamic collection is accompanied by an exquisite portrait by the late, supremely gifted illustrator Trina Schart Hyman.

"The contrast between the paintings and the incorporated elements creates a hyperreal, otherworldly quality in some of the pictures that makes the striking, central images of the goddesses all the more powerful. Tchana offers a lengthy afterword celebrating the wisdom of the goddesses, forgotten by Earth's peoples but now ready for rediscovery, and provides sources for each story as well as a personal note tracing her spiritual search and her research." -- Booklist